24 Movie Quotes about Hedonism (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about hedonism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 It's only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

12 Was insincerity such a terrible thing? Dorian thought not. It was merely a method by which we could multiply our personalities.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

13 I hope you're not going to talk about anything serious. Nothing is serious nowadays. At least nothing should be.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

14 Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell. I didn't care which.

Andrew Robinson as Larry Cotton in Hellraiser (1987)

15 What exactly attracts you to the leisure industry? -In a word, pleasure. Like, my pleasure in other people's leisure.

Ewen Bremner as Spud in Trainspotting (1996)

16 There's only one way to get rid of a temptation and that's to yield to it. Resist it and the soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

17 As we grow older, our memories are haunted by the exquisite temptations we hadn't the courage to yield to.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

18 Every experience is of value. And whatever can be said against marriage, it's certainly an experience.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

19 Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about. It's nature's sign of approval.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

20 Henceforth, I shall live only for pleasure. Everything else is meaningless.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

24 Movie Quotes about Hedonism (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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